[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 03/27/2008

[bos_rarebirdalert at bosbirding.org]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/27/2008
* NYBU0803.27
- Birds mentioned
   ----------------------------------------------------------  Please 
phone in rare sightings for update
  Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
  Thank you, David
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  [UPDATE - Sunday, March 30, 8 AM. BOS field trip to the  Lake Ontario 
Plains, led by Willie D'Anna. Meet at the
  Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104,
  north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.]

  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  FOX SPARROW
  GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE
  CACKLING GOOSE
  Horned Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
  Tundra Swan
  Snow Goose
  Green-winged Teal
  American Black Duck
  Northern Pintail
  American Wigeon
  Ring-necked Duck
  Greater Scaup
  Lesser Scaup
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Turkey Vulture
  Bald Eagle
  Northern Harrier
  Sharp-sh. Hawk
  Cooper's Hawk
  Red-shouldered Hawk
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Little Gull
  Bonaparte's Gull
  Eastern Bluebird
  Red-w. Blackbird
  Brown-headed Cowbird
  Common Redpoll

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             03/27/2008
  Number:           716-896-1271
  To Report:        Same
  Compiler:         David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
  Coverage:         Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website:          www.BOSBirding.org

  Thursday, March 27, 2008

  Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of  Science 
and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo  Ornithological 
Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3)  for updates, meeting and 
field trip information and (4) for  instructions on how to report 
sightings and use this system.  To contact the Science Museum, call 
896-5200.

  Highlights of reports received March 20 through March 27  from the 
Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN WAXWING,  FOX SPARROW, GR. 
WHITE-FR. GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE.

  March 22, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING was heard in an orchard  on Route 
18 in the Niagara County Town of Newfane. This  report, plus the 22 
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS reported last week at  Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, 
would be the first March  records of BOHEMIAN WAXWING in the BOS 
archives.

  March 27, a FOX SPARROW was still present at a feeder on  Ellicott 
Creek in the Town of Amherst, along with 10 COMMON  REDPOLLS.

  Abundant waterfowl reports again this week. In the Lake  Ontario 
Plains, March 23 on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road,  1 GR. WHITE-FR. 
GOOSE and 2 CACKLING GEESE, plus 75 SNOW  GEESE including 12 
blue-phase, and 20 TUNDRA SWANS. March 21  at Youngstown-Wilson Road at 
Hulbert Road in Wilson, 5 SNOW  GEESE and 41 TUNDRA SWANS.

  Chautauqua County waterfowl reports - maximums from Dunkirk  Harbor 
this week included 365 GREATER SCAUP, 1 LESSER SCAUP,  2 SURF SCOTERS, 
60 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 BLACK SCOTERS,  167 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 68 
HORNED GREBES, 1 RED-NECKED  GREBE, 27 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a BALD 
EAGLE.

  Other Chautauqua County reports - in a flooded field on  Center Road 
in the Town of Sheridan, unexpected 2 COMMON  GOLDENEYES and 3 
BUFFLEHEADS, plus blue-phase SNOW GOOSE and  numbers of NORTHERN 
PINTAIL, AMERICAN WIGEON and HOODED  MERGANSER. At the Van Buren Road 
ponds in Pomfret, 7 TUNDRA  SWANS, 168 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 2 
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 1 GREATER  SCAUP and 2 BUFFLEHEADS, plus numbers of 
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK  and RING-NECKED DUCK.

  And, on the upper Niagara River around Grand Island, small  numbers 
of RED-BR. MERGANSERS joining the many COMMON  MERGANSERS.

  Hawk migration is building up as early April approaches. At  the 
Hamburg Hawkwatch, March 26, 570 TURKEY VULTURES,  NORTHERN HARRIER, 9 
SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWK, 19 RED-
  SHOULDERED HAWKS and 47 RED-TAILED HAWKS. The watch is  located in 
Lakeside Memorial Park, on Route 75 or Camp Road  in Hamburg. Visitors 
are always welcome at the site. Hawk  migration was also noted over the 
Town of Tonawanda on March  25 - 133 TURKEY VULTURES, SHARP-SH. HAWK, 4 
COOPER'S HAWKS  and a RED-TAILED HAWK.

  Other reports this week - 5 LITTLE GULLS among 100  BONAPARTE'S GULLS 
on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston.  EASTERN BLUEBIRD near Chestnut 
Ridge Park in Orchard Park.  And, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and BROWN-HEADED 
COWBIRDS at a feeder  in Sanborne.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 3.  Please call 
in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may  report sightings after the 
tone. Thank you for calling and  reporting to Dial-a-Bird.

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